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8 percent of Android Apps leak private information

article published on 28 July, 2011

Researcher identifies offenders among batch of 10,000 Android applications. Security researcher Neil Daswani, of security firm Dasient, has revealed that around 8 percent of apps on the Android market are leaking private information. He said that the firm studied the behaviour of 10,000 applications for Android and found 800 of them were leaking data. Eleven of the applications were ... [ read the full article ]

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28. July 2011 @ 17:16 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I suppose the Apple folks get to laugh at the Android folks now...

Another chapter in the never ending story of "As The World Turns"...

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30. July 2011 @ 19:04 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Not really, if all people gotta do is read the permission requirements.
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